The first edition of Recommended Dietary Allowances was published in 1943. The tenth edition was published in 1989 after initial rejection in 1985 for philosophical reasons by the National Research Council. The rejection resulted in fundamental changes in the presentation of the RDA. There is no eleventh edition but nutritional advances justify a series of publications from the National Research Council updating the tenth edition. This paper is a very brief presentation of that present status.
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